I was pretty impressed by 07-Ghost (セブンゴースト), a recently broadcast anime adapted from manga by Amemiya Yuki 雨宮由樹 and Ichihara Yukino 市原ゆき乃. I read that it is one of the most anticipated (fangirl) anime this season and it certainly did not disappoint. View full article »
Title: Hyakujitsu no Bara OVA DVD (百日の薔薇 Maiden Rose)
Pairing: Inoue Kazuhiko 井上和彦 x Chiba Susumu 千葉進歩
Release dates:
OVA 1 (29/05/2009) and
OVA 2 (23/10/2009)
Quick Summary:
“My knight. I am the ruler of your destiny.”
Based on a yaoi manga by Inariya Fusanosuke-sensei (稲 荷家房之介), two soldiers from warring countries are bound by their pledge to each other as master and servant. Taki Reizen タキ レイゼン (Chiba Susumu) is a commander of sublime beauty, who has the fate of his nation upon his shoulders. Klaus von Wolfstadt クラウス ヴォルフシュタット (Inoue Kazuhiko), nicknamed “Mad Dog” because of his rough temperament, has sworn his loyalty to him as a knight. Their turbulent relationship is constantly challenged by cold and disapproving voices. What will come of love and emotions made brutal by the violence of war?
Comments:
Men in military uniforms just has that special and unexplainable appeal, don’t they? *slurps* And then there’s the drama, angst and the non-con… that comes in the form of Hyakujitsu no Bara. The Limited Edition DVD vol. 1 is now available for pre order and will be available end of this May. This is definitely one of the more highly anticipated BL animes this year after Ai no Kusabi and Sex Pistols… not like that there’re many releases anyway lol~ but still ^^ it totally feels like a prolonged drought after Junjou Romantica ended. (T_T)
Hyakujitsu no Bara will be animated by Prime Time, who did a great job for Ikoku Irokoi Romantan (異国色恋浪漫譚), so much so that I was willing to overlook Ikoku’s cheesy storyline and script for the super-pretty animation and *ahem* delicious sex scenes lol~ especially in vol. 2. The overall art and animation quality in vol. 1 just wasn’t as good as it was in vol. 2 which was thankfully put through stricter quality control by Yamane Ayano-sensei.
Judging from the official Hyakujitsu no Bara trailer… that has a horizontally rendered, chest-heaving and naked (but censored) bishonen… View full article »
Ah~… wouldn’t that be nice? But be prepared to suffer insomnia if that were to happen… View full article »
Title:
Cafe Lindbergh Bokura no Renai Shinrigaku 2 ~ Koi no Recipe
カフェ・リンドバーグ-ぼくらの恋愛心理学 2 ~恋のレシピ (20/6/2003)
Pairings Disk 1:
Mihara Takumi x Takamizawa Tsukasa (Itou Kentarou x Chiba Susumu)
Touno Itsuki x Shounen A (Ichijou Kazuya x Majima Ryou)
Ichinose Shinya x Takamizawa Tsukasa (Midorikawa Hikaru x Chiba Susumu)
Touno Itsuki x Ichinose Shinya (Ichijou Kazuya x Midorikawa Hikaru)
Mihara Takumi x Shinohara Chihiro (Itou Kentarou x Sakurai Takahiro)
Pairings Disk 2:
Touno Itsuki x Takamizawa Tsukasa (Ichijou Kazuya x Chiba Susumu)
Mihara Takumi x Ichinose Shinya (Itou Kentarou x Midorikawa Hikaru)
Ichinose Shinya x Shinohara Chihiro (Midorikawa Hikaru x Sakurai Takahiro)
Mihara Takumi x Takamizawa Tsukasa (Itou Kentarou x Chiba Susumu)
Watanabe Ryuuji x Touno Itsuki (Masutani Yasunori x Ichijou Kazuya)
Rating: Recommended.
Comments:
This BLCD can be likened to a delectable dessert for our ears (Just look at the seiyuu cast! xD ). The 2-Disc drama is based on an 18+ PC BL Game of the same name. It is as suggested in the title, set in a coffee and pastries cafe. All the cafe staff are men and of course, everybody is gay! (Or becomes gay!) lol~
Update 24 July 2010:
YEBISU Celebrities finally released. Enjoy the pretty but still pictures with minimal movement. Think moving mouths and panning slides. It is still a lot better than I thought it would be.
The visuals for the H-scene are HOT. If you read the manga, you can more or less know what’s going to happen. Pity that no actual animation of the smexy action was involved ^^;;;
We all want our man-smex to be animated properly, don’t we? Lol~
As for the seiyuu, just as I predicted, Horie Kazuma’s uke was terrible. Moe-point zero. So don’t expect too much in the voiced smex department.
Updated confirmed cast
Daijou Takashi 大城崇: Kosugi Juurouta 小杉十郎太 and a different seiyuu is cast for Fujinami Haruka 藤波はるか: Horie Kazuma 堀江一眞
Other casts are the same as the drama CD cast including Canna Nobutoshi and Chiba Susumu.
And LONG xD RT@rossogattino: So yeah. I finally got my sexy Kotetsu dakimakura ready on my bed. He's so big. *p* twitpic.com/8guqic
